Gearing Up for World Championship!
Happy New Year! We hope you are as excited for 2016 as we are here at FIRST Head Quarters . We have been working hard on the World Championship and we want to share some of the awesome things to come based on your feedback from last year's event. Last season, FIRST® tried something new. We modeled the FIRST Championship after the Olympics, with different events housed in different locations, all within one great city. FIRST Robotics Competition was housed at the Edward Jones Dome and at the America’s Center. FIRST Lego League was housed at the America’s Center, FIRST Tech Challenge was housed at the Midway and Grand Ballroom at Union Station , and FIRST Lego League Junior was housed at the Regency Ballroom at Union Station. The pairing of programs was done deliberately – we wanted to give the students from our younger programs a greater opportunity to spend time with, interact with, and learn from the students in our older programs. Planning an event o...